Yes. And you need to untar the rootfs.tar.gz on the SD card with the relevant modules.tar.gz

so instead I followed the instructions on the wiki

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Now copy your existing nand file system onto the sd card. The second cp of /dev is required because the first cp doesn't populate the new /dev directory. The first cp takes 10–15 minutes, so relax for a bit.

>cp -ax / /mnt/sdcard # takes 13 minutes>cp -a /dev /mnt/sdcard

which seemed to work however apt-get isn't working correctly at first it complained about missing files and directories which I created but now I am getting this